17 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 15

"Mme. Kerensky has been arrested and is imprisoned in the

Fortress of St. Peter and St Paul," says a recent telegram from Petrograd. Lord Halifax, the Trimmer, tolls us that ' in a Revo. lution in a week you see the same faces in the Drawing-room, and in a month the same flatterers.' If he had lived in these times he might have added: "and the same gaolers turning the same rocks in the same prisons." No doubt the Terror would have filled the Bastille to bursting if it had not been demolished. If the Sinn Felnora get possession of Dublin, they will have plenty of use for Mountjoy Prison, but they will not allow hunger-strikers to "leave by their own desire."